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fig;. 15) under the name 



T Hortiadlure Beige last year (p. 9 1 

 of C. minima glauca. 



Cliven'charis pulchra, Hort. — It was stated last year that 

 L. Van Houtte, of Ghent, had succeeded in raising; a bi- 

 generic hybrid from Clivea and Eucharis Amazonica, of 

 which further detail would presently be published. Such 

 a cross, if successful, cannot fail to be of exceptional in- 

 terest. 



DiPLADENiA iLLUSTRis, var. GLABRA, is a handsome stove- 

 climber with a woody root-stock, annual climbing- stems, 

 thick ovate leaves, and large rosy red flowers. It has been 

 introduced from Brazil, and flowered at Kew last j'ear. 



Epiphyllum Gaertneri was introduced several years ago 

 under the names E. Makoj'anum and E. Russellianum, var. 

 Gaertneri. It was at first supposed to be a hybrid between 

 Cereus and Epiph)dlum, but it now proves to be an intro- 

 ■ duction from Brazil and a third good species of Epiphyllum. 

 It is a beautiful stove-plant, at least equal to the best of the 

 many varieties of this genus grown, and at the same time 

 abundantly distinct from, them all. k figure of it was pub- 

 lished in the Botanical Magazine (t. 7201). 



Impatiens mirabilis. — 1'his extraordinary species has 

 latel)' been noticed in Garden and Forest. It is a native 

 of ;\Ialaya, where it forms an erect, naked, succulent trunk 

 four feet high, and as thick as a man's leg ; leaves nearly 

 a foot long, and large inflated, fleshy, golden yellow flow- 

 ers. It flowered at Kew, and was figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine (t. 7195). 



LiLiUM Lown, Baker. — This is a new species similar to 

 L. nepalense, with white flowers. It has been introduced 

 from northern India by INIessrs. H. Low & Co. (See Garden 

 and Forest, vol. iv., p. 352.) 



;\IoR.EA Robinsoniana is not a new plant, but its flowering 

 at Kew last year for the first time revealed its true character, 

 vi'hich is that of a handsome floriferous Iris of exceptional 

 dimensions. It is figured in Garden and Forest (vol. iv. , 



P- 552-) 



Nerine pancratioides, Baker, is a new edition to the genus 

 which Mr. O'Brien has intro ;uced from Natal. It has long 

 narrow leaves, a scape two feet high bearing an umbel of 

 from twelve to twenty flowers one inch long, with small 

 square bifid scales between the filaments. 



Primula imperialis, Jungh. — This is the gigantic Primrose 

 from the mountains of Java, which was raised at Kew from 

 imported seeds and flowered for the first time last year. It 

 has a broad rosette of leaves each fifteen inches long by 

 five inches wide, an erect scape three to four feet high, 

 bearing whorls of deep yellow flowers. 



Pri.mula Poissonii, Franchet. is a new and beautiful spe- 

 cies from Yun-nan which flowered at Kew in June last. It 

 resembles P. Japonica in habit, but differs in the leaves and 

 in the color of the flowers, which is rich rosy mauve with 

 a yellow eye. A single plant of this species has produced, 

 no less than twelve scapes in one season. 



Streptocarpus Galpini, Hook. f. — I described this in Gar- 

 den and Forest, vol. iv., p. 534, from plants which have 

 been introduced at Kew from the Transvaal. It is the pietti- 

 est of all the species of this genus. 



Thrina.k Morrisii, Wendl. — This was discovered by Mr. 

 D. i\Iorris. the Assistant Director at Kew, in the island of 

 Anguilla, in the West Indies. It differs from all known 

 species of Thrinax in the dwarfness of its stature, none of 

 the many mature plants seen by Mr. iNIorris exceeding three 

 feet in height. It has elegant foliage, and promises to be 

 a useful garden Palm. 



Tulbaghia Natalensis, Baker, is a Cape bulb with no 

 more beauty than Mignonette, but, like the latter, it has 

 the charm of delightful fragrance. It has been introduced 

 to Kew from Natal. T. alliacea is cultivated for the sake 

 of its purple flowers. Its linear leaves have a strong onion- 

 like odor. 



Wahlenbergia undulata, Cham. — A straggling herbaceous 

 plant which may be grown in suspended baskets, so that 

 its thin leafy stems may hang and display its campanulate 



[Number 205, 

 It has been introduced from the Cape 



deep blue flowers 

 to Kew. 



Among popular greenhouse-plants perhaps the most 

 noteworthy additions last year were the beautiful dwarf 

 Cannas, whose large richly colored flowers and good na- 

 ture under ordinary cultivation have made them prime 

 favorites in England. Two prett}- Japanese varieties of 

 Azalea amoena, hardy in England, were sent out b)' J. 

 Veitch & Sons. This firm have also added many new va- 

 rieties of greenhouse Rhododendrons and Hippeastrums. 



Herb.^ceous Plants. — There was an "extraordinary num- 

 ber of varieties of popular herbaceous plants introduced 

 last year, such things as Dahlias, Gladioli, Pajonias, Carna- 

 tions, Rudbeckias, Delphiniums and Irises being considera- 

 bl)^ reinforced by additional sorts of first-rate character. 

 Of new species there were very few, the best of them being 

 as follows ; Chionodoxa grandiflora, a variety of C. Lucilite 

 with erect racemes and larger flowers than the type. It 

 was previously known as C. gigantea (T. S. Ware & Co. ) 

 Galanthus Alleni, Baker. A pretty addition to cultivated 

 Snowdrops, characterized by short broad leaves and pure 

 white flowers (Caucasus). G. nivalis, var. Elsa', Burbidge, 

 a variety with larger flowers and broader leaves than G. 

 Corcyrensis, from Macedonia. Another variet}', named 

 Rachelise by Mr. Burbidge, has larger flowers than the last- 

 named, and blossoms in October and November. Iris 

 Fosteri, Baker, is a handsome species of the Caucasica 

 group. It has yellow flowers blotched with deep violet. 

 Lilium Brownii, var. chloraster. Baker, is a new introduc- 

 tion to Kew from western China, and differs from the type 

 in having broader leaves, larger flowers, with a broad 

 green midrib to each segment, and deep red pollen. L. 

 Martagon x Hansoni, Baker, is a hybrid raised by C. G. 

 Van Tubergen, Haarlem, from the two species indicated in 

 the name. W.itsonia densiflora alba is a very prettv Cape 

 bulb which has so far stood out-of-doors at Kew, where it 

 flowered for the first time last year. It has erect spikes 

 eighteen inches high, with the flowers in a dense head like 

 a ripe wheat-ear ; pure white. 



A Correction. — Miltonia vexillaria, var. Sanderiana. The 

 plant to which I referred under this name in Garden and 

 Forest (vol. iv., p. 545), and again in the list of new plants of 

 1 89 1 (vol v., p. 3 1 ), had, I find, been previousl y figured and de- 

 scribed in Revue de I' Horlicidture Beige, 1891 (p. 73),underthe 

 name of M. vexillaria, var. Leopoldiana, Reichb. f. "One 

 of the prettiest and rarest of the \arieties of this Miltonia 

 is this which was dedicated by Reichenbach to Leopold II. 

 It had been received by Monsieur Paynaert direct from 

 Monsieur Paten, of Antioquia, in Colombia. It has been 

 exhibited before the Horticultural Society of Belgium and 

 the Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany at Ghent, and 

 was unanimously awarded a certificate of merit.'' 

 LonJ'n W. IVa/son. 



' Cultural Department. 

 Christmas Roses. 



IT is only within the last few years that these charming liardy 

 midwinter flowers have become so popular in English gar- 

 dens, and curiously enough the desire on the part of a few 

 specialists to arrive at something like finality in the nomen- 

 clature of Helleborus niger and its varieties, has been the 

 means of bringing to light varieties unheard of previously. 

 While the controversy was in progress distinct varieties were 

 cropping; up all over the country, each with its special mark- 

 ings, different time of flowering, etc. The varieties altifolius, 

 major and angustifolius may perhaps be taken as the standard 

 ones. They were pretty well known to the older botanists, and 

 were the varieties usually found in general collections. To 

 these have been added, within recent years, vernalis, Riverston, 

 hybrid Caucasicus of gardens, the Bath variety, the Brockhurst 

 variety, Madame Fourcade, St. Brigid, W. Brockbank. etc., 

 some' of tliem having probaljly been in gfardens for manv 

 years, and grown simply as the Christmas Rose. Tlie gather- 

 ing of a collection together was the inevitable result of so 

 much correspondence, the comparing and describingof wliicli 





